auchentorlie house paisley

[chrisseyw]

i just wondered if anyone had any more info on the above i did manage to find out it was used as a kind of clearing house and maternity unit for poor women and chilodren before they were moved on many thanks chrissey

[paddyscar]

hi Chrissey:

It seems that this grand home has had several incarnations, starting as a private home and moving on as a hospital, maternity home and workhouse.

St. Margaret's is recorded at the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (rcahms) as St Margaret's Hospital.

It is said to have been a maternity facility, presumably an annexe of the RAI.

http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/19 ... argaret+s/

http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Paisley

http://www.scottish-places.info/feature ... 16997.html

Hope this helps,
Frances

[chrisseyw]

many thanks francis chrissey

[Currie]

Hello Chrissey,

From Parliamentary Papers, similar to what's on the workhouse site.


1911 [Cd. 5620] Sixteenth annual report of the Local Government Board for Scotland.

CHILDREN'S HOMES.

We are pleased to record that the Parish Council of Paisley, in pursuance of their policy for the treatment of children, have leased Auchentorlie House, and adapted it for use as a Home for children and maternity cases. This house is finely situated in the eastern part of the town, and will accommodate 77 inmates. The buildings consist of two floors and attics, and include dormitories for boys and girls, a day-room and dining-hall for the children, a waiting-room for maternity cases, an accouchement room, probationary wards, bath-room and lavatory accommodation, kitchen, out-houses, &c. There is also suitable accommodation for the staff.

The house has been placed in charge of a matron who is a fully qualified nurse, and who possesses the Central Midwives Board Certificate in Midwifery. Under her are two other trained nurses, a cook, and two servants. A visiting medical officer has also been appointed, who attends at the house each day.

The object of the Parish Council in acquiring this Home was to prevent those children who, for different reasons, require institution treatment, from coming in contact with the ordinary inmates of the Poorhouse. The Parish Council continue to send to their Home at Largs neglected and under-fed children, who are boarded out when restored to health. But children under the age of two years, for whom it is usually difficult to obtain guardians, will, instead of being sent to the Poorhouse or to Largs, be placed in Auchentorlie House.

It may be added that such children are, as a rule, dependants of parents who are either in the Poorhouse or in prison, orphans, and deserted or separated children who are waiting to be boarded out.

All maternity cases will, as far as possible, be treated in the Home, the intention being that, in future, no birth should take place in the Poorhouse. The mothers, on leaving the Home, will be watched over and helped by the lady members of the Council.


From other reports:
1913 – Accommodation was revised and House was sanctioned to accommodate 66 children and 4 women.
1922 – Part of grounds taken for road widening.
1933 – Paisley Town council established a Home at Woodside House to replace Auchentorlie.


All the best,
Alan

[chrisseyw]

many thanks chrissey